Servant of Morgoth

The third and main teaser was fine, sometimes even great. Much better than the previous two for sure. Still my fears and worries for the series remain the same

I agree with you about the aesthetic and the visuals. Sometimes it looks too oversaturated or too clean or too generic like the lastest fantasy tv series The Witcher, GOT, Shadow and Bone, Wheel of Time and so on. If I have to be honest I'm not the biggest fan of all the pieces of armours and weapons we've see so far but overall they are fine. I can't really have an opinion about how the Elven storyline is going to be from what FoF said about the elves leaks but I fear the worst for Numenor storyline. Because at least for me you can't really get through Numenor's decline, mortality vs immortality, colonialism and its consequences ,the breakdown of Numenor society in two factions, everthing they did for bad or for worse if the show is going to basically takes place in an handful of years as In Deep Geek said quoting the showrunners themselves Also season 1 is going to be basically introducing the world, the main themes and storylines and the characters. Half of them are OC characters or storylines and I fear there are decent chances I'll get bored after a couple of episodes lol

I will try to give to this tv series a fair chance without preconceptions and prejudices based on the leaks I've known and the things I've seen so far. But it's tough you know. There are a couple of things that I really don't like: the harfoots and the huge ammount of screentime they're getting(it seems reading among the statements of the two showrunners there will be many spotlights on them, too many OC characters from Meteor Man being potentially an OC Maia to Adar the surrogate main villain of season 1 who will probably steal the role that should belong to Sauron since the beginning and not since season two and of course timeline compression's consequences on the storyline of Numenor and on themes like immortality vs mortality, fear of death, Numenorean colonialism and much more.For example I would hate if in the show Ar Pharazon will take all the blame for the downfall of Numenor which even for a disgusting character like Pharazon it's too much and very far from what Tolkien wrote and said. But what really makes me sad and also a bit angry are two statements from the showrunners: "we're writing the book Tolkien never wrote" and "we're doing what Tolkien would do".

Maybe I'm wrong but I remember Balrogs lose the ability of shape-shift thousand years before the S.A.

I think there is a big chance I will regret the adaptations of Jackson(despite all the changes he made and all the flaws of his six movies) I really hope not to but I see already a lot of potentially red flags and we're talking only about the first among five seasons( that we have yet to see btw)

If they can bend the time-frame to such extent I refuse to imagine what they can do with the canonical events of the SA like the real purpose behind the forging of the rings, the war of Elves and Sauron, the Last Alliance, the Tolkienish's reason behind the moral decline of Numenor, the characterisation of characters like Elendil or Isildur or men in general. I wonder if Tolkien Estate just sold the rights washing their hands about Amazon and the people in charge of this tv adaptation breaking the Lore

If Meteor Man is a Balrog I think we'll see him destroy the kingdom of Moria. The problem is this event happen only in the Third Age(1980) and this means another red flag for the show. Gandal arrives in Middle Earth on a ship also around 1000TA. So here there is no lesser evil to choose

https://www.empireonline.com/tv/news/lord-of-the-rings-power-five-seasons-fully-planned-out-exclusive/ "Telling a whole new story in the Second Age of Middle-earth, Prime Video’s streaming series began with its storytellers – including showrunner JD Payne and Patrick McKay, along with executive producer and director JA Bayona – cooking up a full beginning-to-end story. It’s about the destination as well as the journey, and The Rings Of Power is ready to take us there and back again. “We even know what our final shot of the last episode is going to be,” Payne teases to Empire in our world-exclusive cover story. “The rights that Amazon bought were for a 50-hour show. They knew from the beginning that was the size of the canvas – this was a big story with a clear beginning, middle and end. There are things in the first season that don’t pay off until Season 5.” Across those five seasons, The Rings Of Power will weave a story of Elves, Dwarves, Harfoots and more set against an epic backdrop of major events from the history of Middle-earth – from the forging of the rings, to the rise of Sauron. If the individual plot threads are new, the outline is straight from the source. “It was like Tolkien put some stars in the sky and let us make out the constellations,” Payne explains. “In his letters [particularly in one to his publisher], Tolkien talked about wanting to leave behind a mythology that ‘left scope for other minds and hands, wielding the tools of paint, music and drama.’ We’re doing what Tolkien wanted. As long as we felt like every invention of ours was true to his essence, we knew we were on the right track.” Get ready for a show, then, that brings fresh ideas, perspectives, characters and more to our screens in a world we’ve long loved – but all in keeping with what its original creator set out. “The pressure would drive us insane if we didn’t feel like there was a story here that didn’t come from us. It comes from a bigger place,” says McKay. “It came from Tolkien and we’re just the stewards of it. We trust those ideas so deeply, because they’re not ours. We’re custodians, at best.” It’s always been clear in the world of The Lord Of The Rings – if you’re going to climb up a mountain that steep with a burden that heavy, you can still make it with the right Fellowship." They seem to be very confident. I find some of these statements very bold, almost annoying What do you think guys?